01.04.2016
UN High-Level Panel: Ideas For Change To Global Health And IP System Proliferate

Intellectual Property Watch "Public health advocates, academics, patients, governments and others this week presented further ideas to the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Access to Medicines on ways to break the longstanding pattern of expensive medical products around the world as a way to pay for research and development. (...)

The UN High-Level Panel was launched by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in November with the task of finding solutions to the lack of access to medicines and in particular seek to rectify the “policy incoherence between the justifiable rights of inventors, international human rights law, trade rules and public health in the context of health technologies.” (Photo: USAID / Women in a rural community in Benin band together in a mutual health organization to protect their families from catastrophic health care costs, the leading cause of impoverishment worldwide./ flickr)